Follis / Fals - standing caliph type - Iliya with star - Jerusalem - Arab-Byzantine

The standing caliph coinage emerged directly from Abd al-Malik's monetary reforms of the 690s, representing a deliberate move to replace Byzantine imperial imagery with Islamic authority before the fully aniconic reform coinage of 696–698 abolished figural types entirely. The Iliya mint — the Arabic rendering of Aelia Capitolina — had been producing Arab-Byzantine transitional types for years, but the standing caliph series marks a sharp ideological break. This is among the final copper issues from Jerusalem before figural coinage was abandoned altogether in the Umayyad system.